We host writing, drawing, and storytelling events where everyone, no matter their experience, is invited to join and participate at the level of their own interest.

We provide the materials, the prompts, and a few games to get the conversations started, and the rest is up to you.

There’s no pressure to make or share anything you don’t want to, and there’s plenty of room to explore, experiment, and try something new.

We’re lucky to partner with a variety of venues around NYC, from museums and non-profits to wine bars and bookstores.

For a current list of everything we have coming up, check here. 

Interested in bringing an event to a venue near you? Send us an email!

Not even a little bit. Each event is designed specifically to accommodate every experience level, whether you’re between novel drafts or it’s your first time trying. 

We lead six-week writing workshops, both online and in-person, designed for writers working in fiction and creative non-fiction.

Unlike our events, where the crowd changes from one night to the next, these are fixed groups that meet weekly for the length of the session.

The contents of these workshops vary; some are focused on developing strategies and routines, while others are about giving and receiving feedback on your projects in process. Common among them is that you don’t need to apply to join, and no prior writing experience is necessary.

Our quarterly three-day weekends are structured around writing and visual art workshops, community-building, and solo time to work. We think of these retreats as an expansion of the vibe we’re cultivating at our events: low-stakes experimentation, discovery, and art-making as a social practice. 

Our participants are often not professional artists or writers (though they are also welcome!). Instead, they come from different professional backgrounds—journalists, project managers, engineers, baristas— but they all share an interest in having writing and art-making play a bigger part in their lives, if only for a few days.

You can learn more about our retreats here.

Great question! Artist residencies are typically focused on providing you with the time and space to work on your art by yourself, away from the rest of your life. These are beautiful and necessary and not what we’re doing.

Our retreats are focused on providing you generative prompts, new strategies for building and sustaining a creative routine, and introducing you to a community of like-minded others. While you will have solo time to expand on the work we do together, that time is only one element of our retreat.

Unlike our events and workshops, you do have to apply to join a retreat. However, we don’t ask for a writing sample or an art portfolio. Instead, you’ll complete a short questionnaire that we’ll use to determine how to build the best possible community for our weekend together.

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Yes! We’re in the middle of launching Little Nights in new cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. 

You can also join an online workshop or join us at a weekend retreat in upstate New York.